The Earth’s atmosphere is currently undergoing a geomagnetic storm caused by two strong solar flares and particle blasts that erupted from the Sun late Tuesday night.
But the potential worst-case effects of the storm — including disruption of GPS satellites, high frequency radio communications and power grid overloads — haven’t materialized in any significant way, because the particle blast hitting Earth is doing so at an angle, according to scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Talkingpointsmemo.com reported.
“At this time, the net effect has been minimized,” said Joe Kunches, a researcher at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, in a midday press conference with reporters conducted from the agency’s office in Boulder, Colorado.
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